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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Image
Reversal
Exposition
Anapest
2. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Act
Character
Satire
Catharsis
3. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Imagery
Elision
Diction
Oxymoron
4. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Cliche
Metaphor
Metonymy
Ode
5. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.
Stereotype
Simile
Hyperbole
Conceit
6. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.
Elision
Flashback
Assonance
Dramatic Irony
7. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Internal Conflict
Paradox
Falling Action
Dramatic Irony
8. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Foreshadowing
Synecdoche
Sestina
9. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
Analogy
Sonnet
Dialogue
Suspense
10. A strong pause within a line.
Assonance
Denouement
Foil
Caesura
11. A three-line stanza.
Tercet
Rising Action
1st Person
Trochee
12. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Oxymoron
Folklore
Recognition
Conceit
13. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Exposition
Mood
Falling Meter
Rhythm
14. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Figurative Language
Foot
Couplet
Tercet
15. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.
Flashback
Dialect
Conceit
Aphorism
16. The person who 'tells' the story.
Aubade
Aphorism
Parable
Narrator
17. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Author's Purpose
Elision
Exposition
Ballad
18. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
Figurative Language
Image
Voice
Style
19. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Parable
Fiction
Literal Language
Situational Irony
20. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
Understatement
Allusion
Fiction
Author's Purpose
21. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Image
Enjambment
Anapest
Elegy
22. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Metonymy
Villanelle
Verbal Irony
Flashback
23. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Motif
Imagery
Analogy
Stereotype
24. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Repetition
Situational Irony
Rhythm
Denouement
25. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Solioquy
Metonymy
Author's Purpose
Stereotype
26. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Image
Character
Spondee
Analogy
27. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Image
Denotation
Suspense
3rd Person (Omniscient)
28. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Diction
Rhythm
Cliche
Syntax
29. The selection of words in a literary work.
Convention
Diction
Couplet
Author's Purpose
30. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Subplot
Elision
Conflict
Closed Form
31. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Irony
Foot
Figurative Language
Closed Form
32. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Symbol
Allusion
Tercet
Persona
33. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Dialect
Repetition
Parable
Tone
34. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Apostrophe
Folklore
Pyrrhic
Subplot
35. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Narrator
Nonfiction
Iamb
Ballad
36. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Aside
Denotation
Free Verse
Iamb
37. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Octave
Plot
Audience
Symbol
38. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Image
Metaphor
Trochee
Onomatopoeia
39. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Folklore
Paradox
Sestina
Audience
40. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Plot
Free Verse
Enjambment
Epigram
41. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Closed Form
Ode
Image
Author's Purpose
42. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Symbolism
Imagery
Reversal
Aubade
43. Broken down acts.
Denotation
Rising Action
Metaphor
Scenes
44. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Folklore
Epic
Plot
Lyric Poem
45. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Author's Purpose
Spondee
Folklore
Verbal Irony
46. What a story or play is about.
Tercet
Subject
Iamb
Stanza
47. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Dialect
Figurative Language
Lyric Poem
Suspense
48. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Voice
Folklore
Irony
Plot
49. A character struggles against some outside force.
Iamb
Solioquy
External Conflict
Syntax
50. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Assonance
Sestina
Quatrain
Folklore